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Justice E-censorship Gaffe Sparks Controversy

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A government watchdog group Wednesday accused the Justice Department of improperly censoring portions of a key report on internal workplace diversity, after online activists successfully unmasked the blacked-out portions of an electronic copy of the document. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2003

The Great American Privacy Makeover

It starts out innocently enough. You're browsing the Web, dreaming of the weekend and your next golf game, and you happen across a great-looking site that promises to drop your handicap in three easy lessons. Sounds good, but you've got . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2003

An Easy Way to Avoid Spam

Spam has become a real problem these days. The more people who know your e-mail address, the more unwanted pieces of mail you receive. If you used your e-mail to register on some Web sites or publish a few articles in . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2003

Spam Fighters Defeat Nuisance Junk Mail Lawsuit

Anti-spam activists have won an important legal battle against Florida-based junk mailers. But even though Florida Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed the case brought by eMarketersAmerica.org with prejudice (i.e. ruling that the lawsuit was without any foundation), anti-spam groups still . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 21, 2003

Spammers Struggle With Words

With spam blocking companies trying to ward off the latest advances, spammers are making strenuous attempts to get around e-mail filters. Their latest ploy: Spam with subject lines that read ^G.et^ a BUL"KY 'PO;L`E or `Extend y:ou^r r;od` ^easy'. Say again? . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2003

Gore: Intrusive technology may make us less secure

The relentless drive for more intrusive technology to help improve security may result in a society that is less secure, warned Al Gore, former vice president of the U.S., speaking Tuesday at the Carnahan Conference on Security Technology in Taipei.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 14, 2003

Personal privacy is at risk, warns EC

The report entitled "Security and Privacy for the Citizen in the Post-September 11 Digital Age: A Prospective Overview" focuses on the potential threats to security and privacy of three particular technologies. They are identity management, such as on-line services that require . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2003

Spammers Try Fooling Filters With Digital Signatures

Bulk emailers are digitally signing unsolicited messages in hopes of bypassing popular filtering programs, but updated software has been modified to detect the trick. The trick was noted on several security lists, as the number of junk email messages sporting . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2003

The Brave New World of Internet Law

Last month at the International Business Law Services (IBLS) Strategic Global Summit for E-Commerce, Pauline Reich, an associate professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo, Japan, gave a speech entitled "Legal Issues: Internet and E-mail in the Workplace." Reich . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2003

Cloaking Device Made for Spammers

Call them spackers -- they're the new breed of computer crackers who earn a living in cahoots with spammers. The latest innovations developed by such mercenary hackers on behalf of the junk e-mail profession are techniques that enable spammers -- . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 09, 2003

The Rise Of The Spammers

Spammers are becoming more intelligent and more difficult to detect, which is a strange issue, just because in my opinion, an intelligent person is smart enough for not bothering millions of people. So, why these people keep on helping unethical . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 08, 2003

Digital-rights group knocks 'trusted' PCs

A high-profile digital civil liberties group is criticizing a component of the "trusted computing" technology promoted by Microsoft, IBM and other technology companies, calling the feature a threat to computer users.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2003

Build and Implement A Single Sign-on Solution

It is particularly difficult to bolt a single sign-on solution -- SSO, the ability to log in once and be authenticated to all your network resources -- onto existing applications, but every developer faces this problem when building sophisticated portals. Because . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2003

Stopping Spam at the Gateway

I hate spam. You hate spam. We all hate spam. But none of us hate spam as much as ISPs and business network administrators do. Alexis Rosen, president and co-owner of Public Access Networks, which runs Panix, one of the oldest . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2003

Spam: This Time It's Personal

Andy Markley was really looking forward to a work-free Labor Day weekend far away from his computer. But he made the mistake of checking his inbox before he left for his planned holiday. Hundreds of e-mails greeted Markley that Saturday . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2003

In Britain, Spammers Will Pay

Britain Thursday became the second country in Europe to criminalize spam, the unwanted barrage of e-mail and mobile phone text messages promising riches, cheap home loans and a better sex life. The unsolicited messages, which industry groups say account for . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2003

How to Steal $65 Billion

I have also used the time to learn more about identity theft and what I found is very scary. Identity theft is not only incredibly easy to do, but our government seems to go out of its way to help the thieves. The government is making many Americans more vulnerable, not less. This is crime just waiting to happen on a massive scale, thanks to computer technology.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 12, 2003

The Perils of Online Data Entry

The government has declared that broadband Britain is to become reality by 2005, and that progress towards this target is being made quickly. Oftel, the UK telecoms watchdog, confirmed that the one million broadband connection landmark was reached in October . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 12, 2003

ID Theft Hits 10m Americans a Year

A staggering 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, according to Federal Trade Commission survey out this week. In the last year alone, 9.9 million people have had their identity purloined. Identity theft . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 09, 2003

Privacy's New Image

Where privacy is concerned, Americans distrust their government. But they'll gladly hand over their personal information to a corporation to get a deal on their groceries. Europeans, on the other hand, will give their government extremely broad surveillance powers, but they largely forbid private enterprise from accessing any personal data without their express written consent.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2003

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